Friday, 22 March 2013

I packed my entire craft room into boxes a couple of months ago, I wanted to revamp the room entirely as it wasn't very inspiring as a creative space. My original time scale was one week, two at the most, then I got the flu, another couple of life events cropped up and basically 2 months later I finally managed to unpack those boxes.

I love it in there now and amazingly even though I finished it 2 weeks ago it's still tidy lol. It won't last, it's still a novelty.

A couple of pics of the finished space.

The pic below is where the little one crafts she used to have to sit on the floor lol﻿

Another positive about finishing the room is that I can finally get back to my Jellypark DT work :o)

It's challenge time over on the Jellypark Friends Challenge Blog and the theme is pastels, pretty pinks, hazy blues, sage greens and perfect purples we would like to see cards or projects created in that colour scheme.

I decided to use one of the new release images from a fortnight ago available here, this gorgeous bird cage image.

I coloured it in and then took my trusty craft knife to it. I made the little flowers and the sentiment. The bird cage moves with the card as I attached it to the sentiment with a wire hanger.

I can't wait to see what pastel delights people come up with.

There are two brand new releases also available in the store today, how cute are they?

Welcome to my blog

Hi, I'm Mel and I love to craft, hence the name of my blog :o) I'm a stay at home mum with 2 gorgeous children. They drive me mad, make me laugh and leave me in awe each minute of every day.

I have always loved art and creative pursuits and have been making things from a very young age.

I predominantly make cards and have done for about 20 years now, I also like to sew, knit and crochet. Recently I got a chance to make some lampwork glass beads, I really enjoyed it but will stick with paper and card as opposed to very hot flames and moulten glass :o)

I love bright colours and modern design. Colouring is such a wonderfully therapeutic past time.

Digital art plays a large part in my crafting and I often spend hours digitally paper piecing or creating my own background papers, sentiments and embellishments for my cards.